VIDEO: ANDRE AGASSI ON 60 MINUTES AND FRESH AIR

Andre Agassi was on “60 Minutes” this Sunday, interviewed by Katie Couric to promote his new autobiography, “Open”. He and Couric cover the book’s big controversies: his nightmarish Tennis Dad, “Image is Everything”, Brooke Shields and his use of crystal meth and subsequent drug test cover-up.

I got my hands on the book this weekend.* (It goes on sale today – click here to buy it) After reading about halfway through – to where Agassi meets Brooke in the mid-90s – I found it jarring to watch this composed, media-ready sports icon chat in the “60 Minutes” studios. I was expecting to see the Agassi that I’ve come to know in the first 200 pages – a vulnerable man-child, a tortured soul, a narcissist without a cause. The book’s that good – I’m so caught up in the narrator’s story, that I feel disoriented when I return to the present and see a philanthropic family man expounding on the TV screen

I hope to finish “Open” in the next couple of days and will try to post my thoughts on it soon. If any of you do pick up a copy, I hope you’ll leave some comments. It will be like a virtual tennis book club!